[new to this] --watch, what does it watch?

[DrLightman]

Hello,

I installed the cli version and I'm trying to integrate Tailwindcss in an old tech PHP/html/css/mysql website script.

The presentation in this script is a mixture of PHP files, HTML files, JS/jQuery and html generated by php string concatenation, even jQuery, etc all good ol'd school scripting, if you know what I mean.
Now, someone in charge choose to integrate Tailwind in that rusty app to make it look cool so here I'm.

If I'm gonna use Tailwind classes into a piece of run-time-generated html by some nested PHP function or jQuery callback, how do I trigger Tailwind?

Atm, following the docs, I've this running at the root of the project:

d:\website_from_1990> npx @tailwindcss/cli -i ./templates/default/css/style2-src.css -o ./templates/default/css/style2.css --watch

It worked when I modified the source css, but for the other (php, html, js) source files?

Thanks

[wongjn]

Tailwind should automatically scan source files for Tailwind classes. I would envisage this to extend to the --watch flag. If it seems to be missing some classes, you may need to explicitly set its "base" path to the project root.

[DrLightman]

Thank you, quick and clear response, I missed the docs during my first quick read.
So php, js, html files should be automatically scanned.
And there is a problem I see for dynamically generated classes, they don't get scanned. Maybe for those one may put those in a mega list inside a dedicated comment in a dedicated source file, to cover all possible cases, to make it scannable by cli, ok not that bad.